Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-07-15

A Double Tragedy i'm Paramount
Park.

A Philadelphia special says: A rag
ped. blood-stained man, struggling
through the bushes on his hands and
knees and crying frantically - Water !
water /" was the sight that frightened
little twelve year-old Annie Perkins as
she stood by the spring back OF the
Sedgeley guard house, in Paramount
Park, near Lemon Hill, shortly
before 3 o'clock this afternoon.
The man was crawling slowly
and painfully toward the spring,
and Annie turned from the spot and
ran. She continued her flight until she
met Park Guard Mclaughlin, whom
she told of the terrible sight that had
startled her. The guard found the
man wallowing in the spring, convey
ing tho cooling draughts to his mouth
by means of bis hands, while thick
clots of blood dropping from black
looking wound in his right temple
redeemed the clear waters.
The guard seized the man and dragged
him from the pool. He struggled des-
perately, and officer Mclaughlin final
~ had TO abandon the battle and sum-
mon assistance. Captain Chateau came
to his relief, and they managed to get
the man to the guard house, where he
soon became unconscious, An ambu-
lance was sent for and the man was
lifted in and taken to the German Hos
pital. As he was beingtenderly placed
on a cot interviewing ward he opened
bis eyes and said to Resident Physician
Bodamer "You'd betterco back after
my wife. | left her dead among the
bushes" Then he closed his eyeSagain
and relapsed into insensibility.
Or. Bodamer sent word at once to
Captain Chateau. and he sent an officer
TO search the bushes back OF the Sedge-
ley guard house. There in a secluded
spot scarcely one hundred yards away
from the road, amid clumpo bushes,
lay the body Of a sallow faced woman
apparently about thirty-five years old,
with long brown hair and dark dress
thrown open nearly to the waist. She
was OF medium height and weight, and
wore mems congress CATERS. A bullet
hole in her left temple and another in
the breast near the lungs told the story
of her death. The body was carried to
the guard house, where it lies on
strctcher.
Near the spot where the wOman's
body Was found the park guard picked
up n cheap seven-barrelled revolver
with the name Defender" stamped
upon it. Five empty cartridges and
two loaded ones remained i'll the cham
bcrs.
Drs. FodGmer. Gross, and Beaver
lahored for several hours at the Ger
man Hospital before they succeeded il
restoring tbCir strange patient to con-
sciousness. he had three bullets in
him. One had entered the right tenn
pie Just outside the lower brain cavity.
The physicians succeeded in extracting
this ball. Another shot was imbedded
in his mouth, and had carried away the
four front teeth of the upper jaw and
fractured the palate bone. The third
bullet entered just below the breast
bone in the space between the lungs.
The doctors were unable to extract
these two bullets. When the man
opened his eyes and collected his scat
tered senses DIR. Bodamer questioned
him in a kindly tone and succeeded in
getting from him the story of the dou-
BILE crime.
"My name is Ernest Kammy," he
said, "and | was born III Germany
thirty-fve years ago. My wife and 1
have been tired OF life for a long time,
and we determined to kill ourselves.
We talked it over all day yesterday,
and last night / went out and bought
pistol. We got up before + o'clock this
morning and went to a secluded part of
the park above the Dauphin street en-.
trance, between Sedgeley and straw
berry Mansion. fired one shot through
her head and she fell back. Then |
opened her dress and shot her through
the breast. When felt sure that she was
dead / shot myself through the breast
1t did not hurt me much, and | fired
again through my mouth. Then 1
waited little while and as death did
not come shot myself again through the
head. | don't remember anything af-
ter that until ] awokc and found my
self lying alongside my dead wife.
was terribly thirsty, but lay back and
waited for death. | remained there
for a couple of hours, and then my
thirst got the best of Inc. could not
get on my feet, so ] crawled out Of the
bushes on my hands and knees and
struggled toward the spring. A little
girl saw me and she ran away. ] had
Just got to the water when the officer
dragged me away and brought me
here.
Kammy refused to say where he had
been living a certificate was found in
his pocket showing that he had been
married TO Margareta Wilhelm in 1874
at Eeuen Schmidton, in Germany. In
bis upper vest pocket was discovered
card of membership of the Iron
Workers Local Assembly No. 1882 OF
the Knights of Labor. bearing his
name. His number was +, III. Kammy
was an iron-molder, and was employed
at Redmon's ironfoundry, at the south
east corner of Broad and Hamilton
stree cts. Three weeks ago he suddenly
threw up his job without any apparent
reason. and had not been working since.
DR.. Rodamer believes that he can save
Kammy's life. The wound in the head
is considered the most dangerous. as it
is extremely close to the brain cavity.